12、The town      we visited last month is the one           the famous painter was born.

       A．where; which      B．which; where       C．which; that          D．where; where

10、假如你是李明，你的班里來了一位英國交換生Paul。他在和你的交談中表示在中國學習壓力很大。請你給他寫封信，給他提一些建議。

【寫作內(nèi)容】

1．  將自己的問題告訴老師和同學，請求得到他們的幫助。

2．  不要總想著考試成績，要多想想自己在哪些方面進步了，這樣就會給自己自信。

3．  多做運動，運動可以幫助自己緩解壓力，并且有助于睡眠。

【寫作要求】

用五句話表達全部的內(nèi)容，并組成一篇連貫的短文。（信的開頭和結尾已經(jīng)給出，不計入句數(shù)）；

【評分標準】

句子結構準確，信息內(nèi)容完整，篇章結構連貫。

Dear Paul,

I quite sympathize with you and understand the great trouble you are suffering from. …

……

Best wishes!

                                                                                                            Yours sincerely,

                                                                                                                         Li Ming

9、默書

1. However, it was not until the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries __________ of the botanical world __________. … Brave young men took the opportunity of going on botanical expeditions, __________ many dangers ….

2. Every day, we pass by advertisements on buses and billboards, on trains and in train stations, ___________ and on public notice boards. … With so many messages __________ our daily lives, it is important to understand how advertisements work.

3. When you come to think about it, there are only four __________ deal with rubbish…. The need to produce __________ of cheap food leads to a different kind of pollution.

4. She was sentimentally attached to this house, __________ it was far too big for her needs, she __________ living there long after her husband’s death.

8、用所給詞的恰當形式填空

11. Mr. Ho, our art teacher, has abandoned meat and become a ___________(vegetable).

12. We _________(quick) our pace and made our way rapidly towards the stream.

13. We still need a large number of _______(qualification) staff in our corporation.

14. The ________ (host) had all her own invitations delivered a week before the party.

15. I think I’ll study _________(evolve) when I go to university.

16.   My mother works as an _________(operation) in a telecom company.

17. The government will take stricter measures to crack down on ________(crime) activities.

18. No one enjoys being laughed at in the _________(present) of their classmates.

19. I’m not so _________(optimism) about his future.

20.   Many people have expressed their opposition to the _________(blood) scenes in the film.

7、1. Catty is admired by her classmates because she speaks English with great f____________.(流利)

2. We could not move freely across the border as there were too many r_________(限制) by their government.

3.   The advertiser said their advertisements were aimed at m________(成熟的) audiences.

4. New technology has also made its own c__________(貢獻) to noise.

5.   We always assume that villagers in remote places are h__________(好客的).

6. I confined myself to two m_______(要求不過分的) ambitions for this year’s resolutions.

7. We were deeply touched by her e__________(熱情).

8. He was quite all right except for some minor i________(受傷).

9. Most of the girl students were p________(迷惑) by the math problem.

10.   Please state your name, age and o___________(職業(yè)).

5、The increase in global trade means that international companies cannot afford to make costly advertising mistakes if they want to be competitive．Understanding the language and culture of target markets in foreign countries is one of the keys to successful international marketing．Too many companies，however，have jumped into foreign markets with embarrassing results．Translation mistakes are at the heart of many blunders in international advertising．

General Motors，the US auto manufacturer, got a costly lesson when it introduced its Chevrolet Nova to the Puerto Rican market. “Nova”is Latin for “new (star)”and means “star” in many languages，but in spoken Spanish it can sound like “no va”, meaning “it doesn’t go”．Few people wanted to buy a car with that cursed meaning. When GM changed the name to Caribe，sales picked up dramatically．

Marketing blunders have also been made by food and beverage companies. One  American food company’s friendly “Jolly Green Giant” (for advertising vegetables)  became something quite different when it was translated into Arabic as “Intimidating Green ogre(吃人妖魔)”．

When translated into German，Pepsi’s popular slogan，“Come Alive with Pepsi” came out implying “Come Alive from the Grave”．No wonder customers in Germany didn’t rush out to buy Pepsi.

Even a company with an excellent international track record like Kentucky Fried Chicken is not immune to the perils of faulty translation．Many sales were lost when the catch phrase “finger licking food” became “eat with your fingers off” in Chinese translation．

A manufacturer of one laundry detergent also made an expensive mistake in the Middle East. Its advertisements showed a picture of a pile of dirty clothes on the left, a box of the company’s detergent in the middle, and clean clothes on the right．Unfortunately，the message was incorrectly interpreted because most people looked at it from right to left, the way Arabic is read．

Having awakened to the special nature of foreign advertising，companies are becoming much more conscientious in their translation and more sensitive to cultural distinctions．The best way to prevent errors is to hire professional translators who understand the target language and its idiomatic usage, or to use a technique called “back translation” to reduce the possibility of blunders. The process uses one person to translate a message into the target language and another to translate it back. Effective translators aim to capture the overall message of an advertisement because a word-for-word duplication of the original rarely conveys the intended meaning and often causes misunderstandings．

51. The underlined word “blunder” in paragraph 1 has the closest meaning to _____________．

A. dispute   B. issue    C．obvious error  D．ignorance

52.   Paragraphs 2 to 6 are developed primarily by means of ______________．

    A. descriptions          B．a(chǎn)nalysis    

C．contrasts             D．giving examples

53. Which of the following statements BEST explains the failure of the laundry detergent ad in the Middle East?

    A．The advertisement is offensive to the Arabic religious belief．   

B．The advertiser is ignorant of the reading habit of the Arabs．   

C．The advertisement is mistakenly translated by the Arabs．

    D. The advertisement is poorly designed regardless of Arabic social customs．

54．It can be inferred from the passage that _______________．

    A．Jolly Green Giant didn’t attract many customers in Arabic countries

    B.  advertisements must avoid jokes since what is considered funny in one part of the world may not be so humorous in another

    C．marketers do not have to appreciate the values of a culture in order to capture the target market   

D.  word-for-word translation should be abandoned in advertisement translation

55．What is the best title for this article?

A．Cultural Importance in Advertising． 

B．How to Translate Advertisement．

C. Avoidance of Culture Oversights.

D. Prevention of Translation Blunders.

4、World top-ranked badminton player Lin Dan said last Friday that he was a better player than Taufik Hidayat in the year of 2006 despite losing the Asian Games single title to the Indonesian Olympic champion.

“I have ranked No.1 in the world for two straight years and I think people can easily come to a conclusion on who is a better player for the whole year,” said Lin Dan, also known as Super Dan in the badminton world because of his marvelous performance in the sport.

Hidayat beat Lin 21-15, 22-20 to give Indonesia its second gold medal in Doha on December 9, retaining his Asian Games singles title and avenging(報仇) two losses to the badminton world champion.

Lin, 23, led China to the men’s team title after defeating Hidayat twice in three days, in the preliminary round and in the semifinals of the Asian Games.www.ks5u.com

In their third meeting, Lin came up against a better-prepared Hidayat than he had encountered previously.

Hidayat was cheered on by the noisy support from dancing and flag-waving Indonesian fans, who had converted the badminton arena into a national celebration even before the two players stepped onto the court.

There’s been a lot of acrimony(言語的刻毒) between Hidayat and Lin, who this year won the single title in the world championships after former champion Hidayat crashed out in the quarterfinals.

In Doha, Hidayat was quoted as calling Lin “arrogant” before the event began, but the two stars played down the rift (a situation where two people dislike each other).

“It’s no problem, we’re close friends,” said Hidayat. “The media fabricated it.”

Lin said last Friday in Beijing that he and Hidayat remain friends despite all the rumors.

“There is no problem between Taufik and me although we don’t talk to each other very much,” said Lin. “Media tends to make up things in order to make their stories juicy.”

46. What does the underlined word “fabricated” mean?

A. made up                          B. reported                  

C. discovered                       D. found out

47. What is the relationship between the two players like?

A. They are only opponents.

B. Lin looks down upon Hidayat.

C. They both think they are friends.

D. The media has worsened the relationship between them.

48. Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?

A. Lin beat Hidayat in all the games of 2006.

        B. Lin won the single title in the world championships in 2006.

        C. Indonesian fans held a national celebration after the two players stepped onto the court.

         D. Hidayat beat Lin 21-15, 22-20 to give Indonesia its first gold medal in Doha on the ninth of December

49. This passage implies that ________.

A. Hidayat was in a better prepared condition than Lin in the Asian Games

B. Lin helped to win the men’s team title in the Asian Games of 2006

 C. Both of them are the best badminton players in the world

 D. Media tends to make up rumors

50. What is the best title for this passage?

A. Opponents Become Good Friends          

B. True Friendship

C. World Top-ranked Badminton Players     

D. Who Is a Better Player?

3、August has always been difficult for me. It is the time when I realize that the books my English teacher assigned to me are not going to read themselves and that I have a difficult month in front of me.

You might think that I don’t want to spend my summer reading, but that’s not the problem: I love reading. On the first day of my summer holidays this year, I went to the library and got “A Gathering of Old Men” by African-American writer Ernest Gaines. I enjoyed it very much. I read all the magazines that my parents subscribe to and spend about 30 minutes every day with the morning paper. So why do I hate summer reading for school? Because the books on summer reading lists are often slow-going and just uninviting. Teachers and librarians don’t understand that summer reading can be entertaining as well as educational. They choose books that a friend of my mother’s calls “spinach books”: good for you, but not much fun to take in. Every summer, I read them, hate them and get bitter about the experience.

This bitterness started three years ago when I was about to begin high school. As preparation, my English teacher told me to read “The Age of Innocence” by American author Edith Wharton. I’m sure there are many people who enjoyed “The Age of Innocence”―some might even say it’s their favorite book.

But I don’t think any of these people read it as a 14-year-old boy on his summer vacation.

“The Age of Innocence” is the story of a forbidden romance in New York 100 years ago. At 14, my only experience with romance was my love for baseball. I couldn’t imagine being in love, much less being in love in 1900. “The Age of Innocence” was totally different to my life.

Most of my required summer reading has been like that―books written in a style that plays up the adjectives and plays down the verbs. I guess teachers don’t think exciting plots make for “good literature”. To me, though, a good writer describes events and characters in a way that makes the reader want to know what happens next.

If I were making up a summer reading list, it would include “The Friends of Eddie Coyle” by George V. Higgins, “The Right Stuff” by Tom Wolfe, and “Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer. These are all books that have literary value but, just as important, can also entertain kids on vacation. If the teachers could stand a little fun in the books they assign, my Augusts would be a lot more enjoyable.

41. The author thinks he will have a difficult August because _______.

A. he doesn’t like reading in summer vacation

B. he is to read the books boring and not right for kids

C. he hates the English teacher assigning homework

D. he hates August

42. What can make students interested in August reading ought to be ______.

A. romantic                                                   B. out of date

C. entertaining and educational                         D. pure

43. The author listed such books as “The Friends of Eddie Coyle” because he thinks ______.

A. they can change his opinion

B. he can learn a lot more from them

C. they are of literary value, and enjoyable

D. he has to do as teachers tell him to

44. In the opinion of the author of this passage, a good writer should be _______.

A. one who describes events and characters in different ways

B. one who is full of imagination

C. one who is learned

D. one who uses a way of describing that makes the reader wish to know what to happen next

45. Which of the following could be the best title of this passage?

A. Why Can’t Teachers Set Us Fun Books?

B. I Don’t Like Reading on the Vacation

C. Teachers, Don’t Set Us Any Reading Assignments

D. Teachers, Set Us Free